Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Australian and New Zealand Perspectives on Decolonising Healthcare
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Indigenous Health and Wellbeing
Australian and New Zealand Perspectives on Decolonising Healthcare
Bindi Bennett | Kelly Menzel
This edited collection brings together the voices and knowledge of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Maori/Pasifika communities to explore decolonisation across healthcare, land-based healing, mental health, and Indigenous-led policy transformation through a strengths-based lens.
Blending traditional knowledge with modern health practices, this book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on Indigenous health and wellbeing. Featuring case studies from Australia, Aotearoa, North America and other Indigenous nations, Indigenous Health and Wellbeing bridges gaps in literature by focusing on contemporary challenges, resilience, lived experience and practice-based solutions.
Structured around four key themes, it will cover:
- Decolonising health care and policy, addressing colonial impacts, systemic racism and epistemicide
- Mental health and social wellbeing, highlighting Indigenous-led healing and resilience strategies
- LGBTQIA+ and neurodiverse perspectives on health, social and emotional wellbeing
- Land-based and interplanetary health to highlight the role of ecological connection in Indigenous health
By centring Indigenous knowledge and fostering cross-cultural understanding, this book advocates for systemic change while celebrating the resilience, knowledge, and agency of Indigenous communities.
Bindi Bennett is a Professorial Research Fellow at Federation University, Australia.
Kelly Menzel is Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Initiative at the Burnet Institute, Australia.
| Publication Date: | 19 August 2027 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| ISBN-13: | 9781350615298 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Weight (oz): | 16.0 |